He likes Perl a lot, in the last few years there has been a fundamental change in Perl. Things like the modern Perl movement, chromatic's Modern Perl book, Moose, Catalyst and DBIx::Class changed how we can use Perl.

Even with all that Perl has an image problem.

What are the Perl companies we trot out: LiveJournal, Ticketmaster, Amazon and SixApart.

He noted that some of them are moving on to other languages for their new development and that some have written Perl in such a way that makes one not want to ever use Perl agai…